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The journey between destinationsMon, 12 Dec 2016 15:01:28 +0000hourly1http://wordpress.com/Comment on About by The First Unique Blogger Award of Yahari Bento! – YAHARI BENTO!!https://midoninja.wordpress.com/about/comment-page-1/#comment-275
Mon, 12 Dec 2016 15:01:28 +0000http://midoninja.wordpress.com/?page_id=2#comment-275[…] Logue There are anime I never watch before (such as Kamen no Maid Guy). Thanks for your posts. :O […]
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Tue, 06 Dec 2016 21:17:01 +0000http://midoninja.wordpress.com/?p=1939#comment-274Aah, thank you for the shout-out! I only found your blog recently but have been going through and reading the archives, and have been enjoying your episode reviews a lot. (I really liked your thoughts about this show being comfortable – both with itself and for the viewer, at this point. Makes me wonder what s4 is going to be like.)
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Sun, 07 Aug 2016 04:48:14 +0000http://midoninja.wordpress.com/?p=1374#comment-259Dorothy using atashi messed me up
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Fri, 29 Jul 2016 01:39:00 +0000http://midoninja.wordpress.com/?p=1497#comment-258

Seems like next week’s episode is written by Moriwaki. Things are gonna be interesting

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Thu, 19 May 2016 05:52:34 +0000http://midoninja.wordpress.com/?p=1209#comment-256As always, great post! It’s how I keep updated with the lack of subs. (We’re on episode 64, and some people have already jumped to sub two episodes of season 3! I’m so confused.)
]]>Comment on PriPara 91 by Sylphihttps://midoninja.wordpress.com/2016/04/12/pripara-91/comment-page-1/#comment-254
Thu, 14 Apr 2016 21:58:39 +0000http://midoninja.wordpress.com/?p=929#comment-254I’ve never been a big fan of babies, so it kinda annoys me that so many shows go down this route lately. I keep having flashbacks to Doki Doki! Precure actually, even though my first reaction was MahoPuri as well. I think this is very close to Doki Doki in terms of raising a baby.
I think it’s safe to say that Jululu is this legendary idol that suddenly disappeared. However, what made her lose her actual form and turn into a baby and why does she look similar to Falulu? Is she a Vocal Doll as well? Questions over questions and obviously no answers yet.

I’m also disappointed, as the key visual for PriPara S3 made me hope that they finally get new regular coords to wear, but they are still wearing the same old stuff… Isn’t it time for a change? They could really need a fresh look, no?

But all in all I’m looking forward to whatever this season has in stock for us! The Kami Idol Grand Prix sounds promising after all and for whatever reason they have their eyes on Laala. Oh yeah, what happened to her Prism Voice? It was a thing during the first season, but it was never further explored after that and turned meaningless. Does the Grand Prix hint at that the thing called Prism Voice is going to be important again? I would love this to be the case!

At this point I still can’t get used to the mysterious triangle that is going to appear further down the road. They look 100% fanmade and do not quite seem to fit into the world with their designs. They look like…you know, those typically semi-traced fanarts of people’s OCs (also seen in Doremi and Precure fanarts). But hey, we are still at the beginning, it probably just takes some time.

Now, to end this comment – I would like to thank you from the bottom of my heart that you are keeping this blog alive and are regularly summarizing the episodes. As my japanese is far from good, I don’t understand a good portion of what is actually going on most of the time. And since there seems to be no one interested in subbing PriPara (Doki is even slower than a snail…), I need to watch the raws… So yeah, thank you so much for giving me the opportunity to understand this show a little better! Also thank you for adding some kind of background informations every now and then, I hope you won’t grow tired of maintaining this blog!

Sincerely,
A fan :3

]]>Comment on About by Shoujo Aishahttps://midoninja.wordpress.com/about/comment-page-1/#comment-253
Sat, 19 Mar 2016 06:11:06 +0000http://midoninja.wordpress.com/?page_id=2#comment-253Until I learn moonrunes, or till subs catch up, I won’t really be able to follow your posts. But as someone who’s finished the first season of PriPara, I can say it takes a special kind of crazy to be doing episodics of the show, I mean that in the best way possible.
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Wed, 01 Apr 2015 17:34:36 +0000http://midoninja.wordpress.com/?p=7#comment-245You definitely should write more blog posts. I’ve also read a couple other of your articles and I always find what you have to say thought-provoking and well-articulated. Not to mention I decided to watch Milky Holmes thanks to your ‘Milky Holmes and Success Through Failure’ post, which I enjoyed and comprehended despite not having watched the anime.

So here’s to hoping I get to read more from you in the future. :)

]]>Comment on “K-ON! Clone” and Serendipity by Midoninhttps://midoninja.wordpress.com/2012/08/09/k-on-clone-and-serendipity/comment-page-1/#comment-244
Tue, 31 Mar 2015 21:32:00 +0000http://midoninja.wordpress.com/?p=7#comment-244Thank you for your kind words. I wrote this largely to express my own inner thoughts, in the hopes of at least opening up a dialogue. That it got through to someone, even several years after I wrote it, is the best news.

Perhaps I should write more blog posts.

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Tue, 31 Mar 2015 17:26:26 +0000http://midoninja.wordpress.com/?p=7#comment-243I know I’m about 3 years too late to be leaving a comment here, and you might have changed your mind about what you wrote here, but I’ll go mad if I go one more second without articulating how amazing and insightful this review was for me.

I’m quite a big fan of the Slice of Life genre – moe or not – as well as a firm believer that having a plot is not necessary for a work of fiction to be good. If what the work is trying to accomplish doesn’t require a plot, then why shoehorn one in?

Now, even as a diehard Slice of Life fan, I’ve always held K-ON! in higher regard than almost every other Slice of Life anime I’ve seen, and I never truly understood why. Yes, the girls are moe, but so are the girls in other SoL anime, and it’s not like it was the music tag that hooked me, since I was never THAT interested in the music aspect to begin with. The jokes are funny, in a cute way, but I wouldn’t say they’re THE main aspect of K-ON!, despite being very prevalent.

Ultimately I just thought I liked it better thanks to KyoAni’s wonderful production values and left it at that.

Yes, I never truly understood why I liked it better than some of its brethren, until I read this article.

You articulated very eloquently a concept that I’ve only ever come across in a vague, nebulous manner, and never really thought about too deeply until now. That is, the Atmosphere Type anime. First of all, the world of K-ON! really does seem to have a life of its own, all thanks to KyoAni’s meticulous attention to detail. And I must admit that that feeling of an organic, breathing setting is a trait that most of my favorite SoL anime usually share. It’s also probably what made me stick with K-ON with a whole lot of enthusiasm back when I first watched it as a person who had only recently been submerged into the world of anime and didn’t really get the SoL genre.

I never thought K-ON! had a plot, in the strictest sense of the word, but your article made me realize that even if it’s episodic and doesn’t really have a continuous story, K-ON! DOES have a narrative. An overarching theme. A destination to which all the little, seemingly unrelated scenes were vital in leading us to. And I feel like an idiot for not realizing before what K-ON! was really about!

It’s a coming of age story.

K-ON! is, like you said, the story of Yui and Azusa, and what each of them takes from the light music club. There’s Yui, who gains a purpose, and there’s Azusa, who gains friendship. She also seems to gain a certain insight through contemplation; the kind that changes how one looks at the world. I feel like Azusa was the one most influenced by all the characters that surrounded her, which was fitting, as the kouhai and most ‘removed’ member of HTT.

Like you said, K-ON!’s second season has all the ingredients to be a powerful emotional torque. It deals with graduation and saying goodbye, something everyone definitely can relate to. And it manages to do it brilliantly. Not only is it emotional and moving, it manages to be so without delving into melodrama. K-ON! always stays consistent with itself, never ever losing the warm, carefree, fun-loving atmosphere it had going on ever since the beginning. Not even in its most serious and contemplative moments, and I think this is what I love about it the most. It goes beyond that and also shows that life goes on normally. Graduation is not the end of the world, nor the end of the girls’ lives.

Yui’s arc in the first season, while definitely less emotional than Azusa’s, also hit me really hard. Particularly in this one scene near the end, where Yui is getting ready in a rush, determined to arrive to the concert on time. I felt that the way it parallels the first scene we see right into the show, where Yui is getting ready in a rush because she’s late for school, and the way her initial scatter-brained carelessness is replaced with pure determination and a sense of purpose, as well as the way Yui refers to her past self in a knowing, more grown up way, was masterfully done. It was very subtle, but Yui really does grow a lot in the course of K-ON! And all without losing her youthful exuberance nor her fun-loving ways.

And… I don’t really know where I was going with this super long comment.

I’m embarrassed that this ended up being such a long wall of text. But I’m glad I let all that off my chest.

I’ll just close up by saying that this is one of the most insightful anime articles I’ve read, and it resolutely changed the way I’ll look at anime, SoL or not, from now on.